Cryptic
Across
1 French nose about at church for native American
(7)
5 A last escape from the computer when put in standard
accom-modation here in Italy (7)
9 Guy’s morning before making capital in
Arabic country (5)
10 No paisley worn here? (9)
11 French interjection to back price for Malaysian
rubber site (4,5)
12 Port from Costa Rican source? No it’s
Chilean (5)
13 NATO in cyclic readjustment means there’s
a pressure build-up (12)
17 Where Donne’s quotation may be contradicted?
(3,4,2,3)
22 Native American turned round, leaving one from
Indonesia (5)
23 Communes with many an Israeli settlement (9)
25 Teesside town’s leader’s off to
somewhere in Virginia (9)
26 Small charge on Jersey, maybe, to return from
this part of Greece (5)
27 A UN tank exploding exposed rock through the
ice (7)
28 Tokyo rig a mighty vehicle to explore Japanese
art (7)
Down
1 N American mid-Silurian rock falls, for example,
given name (8)
2 Scottish headgear’s on credit here in the
English Midlands... (8)
3 ...county of old, where they chase foxes (5)
4 Old SW Mexican precious stone is turned up by
European
community (7)
5 Drink thin rum, fall into river, ending up somewhere
off the Italian mainland... (7)
6 ...in a Roman’s outfit, hoping to find
land there, but well away from the sea! (3,6)
7 Texas site where tin and a titanium deposit is
found after the gold (6)
8 Hindu god’s incarnation as a Virginia sailor
(6)
14 Joint search, involving French, returned a S
American fruit (6,3)
15 Brazilian national park’s a jungle, almost
no return for one reaching midway (8)
16 Detached lieutenant from monolithic building
to go to sacred Japanese city (8)
18 Exasperate tusk excavation here in Siberia (7)
19 Angolan town, Lobito, borders on acceptable
noise therein (7)
20 Hindu city where two from 24 join another sect
(6)
21 Arthurian site above and below a French valley
(6)
24 Ugandan city university makes horse sound (5)
|
Quick
Across
1 Native American tribe originally from the lower
Mississippi (7)
5 Italian Adriatic port and resort (7)
9 Capital of Jordan (5)
10 Pacific region which includes Hawaii and Samoa
among other great islands (9)
11 Malaysian rubber and rice town, capital of Kedah
state (4,5)
12 Chilean port (5)
13 High pressure features (12)
17 British Crown possession in the Irish Sea (3,4,2,3)
22 One from an Indonesian island (5)
23 Self-supporting Israeli farming settlements
(9)
25 Virginia site of the US National Cemetery (9)
26 Relating to a Classical Greek region (5)
27 Exposed rock peak through an ice- or snow-field
(7)
28 Traditional Japanese artform (7)
Down
1 Geological epoch in N America: descriptive of
a type of landform (8)
2 Industrial town of Staffordshire, England, on
the River Tame (8)
3 Abbreviated form of a former English county (5)
4 Mesoamerican civilization of SW Mexico (7)
5 Administrative capital of Sicily (7)
6 Arguably Europe’s oldest state, founded
in the 4th Century AD (3,6)
7 Texas capital, named after the colony’s
first leader (6)
8 Manifestation of a Hindu deity in a visible form
(6)
14 Palm fruit from S America (6,3)
15 Region comprising approximately a third of the
world’s remaining tropical rainforest (8)
16 Honshu religious site and ferry port (8)
18 Major city on the trans-Siberian railway (7)
19 Capital of Huíla province, Angola, formerly
Serra da Bandeira (7)
20 One of seven holy Hindu cities, scene of a reputed
important victory by Siva (6)
21 Legendary last resting place of Arthur, at one
time associated with Glastonbury Tor (6)
24 Settlement on Lake Victoria where, in 1871,
Stanley tracked down Livingstone (5)
|
New
Internationalist 354
